jMaticJicster Me})ioiys, Vol. Ivi. (1912), No, 5. 3 



change of race. Thus, there might be an increased 

 admixture of a taller Norse race with the smaller Iberic 

 race that used to constitute a good deal of the population 

 of Lancashire. It is difficult to estiniate how far this has 

 exerted much influence. One can only sa}' that there is 

 undoubtedly a ver}^ large Jewish admixture, and that the 

 Jevv^s racially are in childhood smaller than the English ; 

 and although, in other respects, they develop somewhat 

 earlier, about the ages of 13, 14, or 15, yet by 17 and 18 

 they begin to show definite falling-off, at a period when 

 the English boy is still growing. I think, therefore, that 

 any improvement in physique, due to admixture of the 

 taller Norseman and Anglo-Saxon with the old Lancashire 

 inhabitants, is probably counter-balanced by the influ.x of 

 oriental races. 



A change of personnel in school due to presejice of boys 

 of another social grade might influence the change. It is 

 uncertain to what extent the boys of to-day are the sons 

 of fathers who were themselves educated at the school, 

 but there is little doubt that the majority of the boys of 

 to-day still come from the same social grade. There is 

 also clear evidence that the minority, coming from a 

 slightly lower social level, is somewhat increased, so that if 

 we are to consider the change in physical development to 

 be largely the result of change of race, and only slightly 

 determined by outward conditions, we should have to 

 suppose that the section of the population, who sent their 

 children to the Grammar School 30 years ago, has been 

 replaced by a racially different, as well as by a physically 

 stronger, section who send their boys there to-day. The 

 simplest explanation seems to me to be that there is 

 increased vigour of bodily growth in the whole community, 

 extending through both upper and lower social strata. 



